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Reimagining B2B Commerce with Faire

Y Combinator

require payment financing, invoicing/approvals, inventory management) and requirements differ from vertical to vertical. As a result, B2B buyers are looking for online platforms to help with the discovery, purchase, and financing of new products. Similarly, independent establishments in Faire’s core categories have grown from 1.47

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The Ideal Pitch Deck is a Story, a Science, and an Art

StartupNation

Companies like Airbnb, Intercom and Buffer have released the pitch decks they used to raise their first rounds of funding, and if you look at their structure, you can essentially find the same set of slides. We’re going to use that to distill the ideal set of slides for a pitch deck (and combine it with some storytelling ).

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LightDeck Diagnostics has $11 million for its new, high-speed way to test for COVID-19, sepsis and heart attack

TechCrunch

The company’s novel test uses planar wave guide technologies to rapidly assess the presence of specific pathogens in a patient. The sample mixes with a reagent pellet in the sample port where the substance is combined with a fluorescent molecule. founded by Myatt.

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

I started out as a lawyer, corporate finance lawyer, for about two and a half years. A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years. If you were a U.S.

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Travel startup GetYourGuide secures $97M revolving credit facility

TechCrunch

Now, a promising travel startup that saw its growth arrested by the arrival and persistence of the pandemic is announcing a $97 million financing facility to help it stay the course until it can finally resume normal business. In October, GetYourGuide closed a convertible note of $133 million.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S.

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